Mashable asked seven tech titans how they use their iPads throughout the day, both for business and for leisure. Have an iPad? Let us know how you use your tablet in the comments below.

In Their Own Words

“The first thing I do when I wake up is to grab my iPad and check my email and read through the headlines in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. But unless I am traveling, I don’t use my iPad much during the day — I type much faster on the iPhone and prefer to use that for email, and I use my computer for presentations and meetings. I definitely end my night with my iPad, though — I read all my magazines (Economist, New Yorker, New York Magazine), do my New York Times crossword puzzle, surf the Internet and watch The Daily Show.

When I am traveling, my iPad is invaluable. I use it all day for email, surfing the Internet, and reading my magazines (but I still read books on my Kindle). I am not a big app guy, but I use Tripit Pro to organize my travel schedule and Evernote is my favorite — it's just a great tool.

I am not into games (sorry Angry Birds), but I do a little Words With Friends, though I’m not great at it — I think I get too impatient. And I am actually all too happy to turn it off when the flight attendant asks me to."

“I actually use my iPad much more for viewing, than actually creating content. That said, the apps I can't live without are Flipboard and Kindle for reading; Soundpaper, Keynote and Kayak for work; and MLB At Bat, Netflix, Spotify and HBO GO for entertainment. These apps have such visceral and engaging user interfaces that they've completely spoiled me against their desktop counterparts."

"The iPad is great for meetings. And I love Flipboard — I don't have magazine subscriptions anymore because why would I? During the day, I'm on Twitter (I tweet for myself and @DoSomething), and while I'm in meetings, it's sort of a portable computer.

I give a lot of speeches, and all my speeches are on the iPad — I have templates for 8 different speeches, and I usually just customize them for each speech. Usually when I give a speech I get a rider asking what kind of lighting I want, whether I'd like a podium, etc — but with the iPad, I don’t need to worry about IT issues because everything I need is right there.

But I actually find my iPad more helpful after work because it’s the greatest sedative for my children — it's just much better than giving them a Benadryl! I don’t remember flying before the iPad — I've just blocked that whole experience out, all those years. I can read them There's a Monster at the End of This Book and we can play education games, and then they fall asleep, and I can do work right there on the iPad, it's great."

"I use my iPad 1 at home in the evening to catch up — read social media on Flipbook, the New York Times app and of course, web browsing and email. Whilst traveling I use it for entertainment — playing some games, watching movies and again web browsing and email."

"These are my favorite apps: Thrillist, especially when I travel; JackThreads for buying myself clothes when I'm sad and alone in a hotel; Thrillist Rewards, naturally; Newsstand for keeping up with my magazine subs; OpenTable for dinner reservations; Seamless Food Delivery when I'm hungry and lazy; Epicurious when I'm hungry and not lazy; DJ Mixer to put together mixes and do mashups — great way to make a flight go by quickly; GarageBand to remind me why I'm an editor and not a composer; Marvel Comics so there's no physical evidence that I'm still a child; iBooks because being able to pull any book I want at a moment's notice is still like magic to me ... when I hear or read about an interesting author, I can get their stuff before I forget; the MAGIC so that when I get out to Vegas I don't get lost in a convention hall so big you can see the curvature of the earth; Concur so I can be a good boy and keep up with my expense reports; AmEx/Capital One/Chase so I can see actually how bad a boy I've been; GIFBoom so I can shoot little snippets of animation and email them around instantly ... good for quick demonstrations; AIM/Twitter/Instagram to stay in touch; fancy for looking at beautiful stuff; Find My iPhone for the exact reason you'd imagine; Netflix; crossword puzzles and Solitaire, because on some level part of me must miss having a PC."

"The iPad is 80% business and 20% pleasure. The first thing I do in the morning is open up the iPad to check my email. Then, I jump on a custom company dashboard to check how sales are going and view any customer red flags for the day.

Once the initial business is done, I turn on Pandora and get ready the day. Once ready, I check Skype for IM messages (Skype is the company default for IM). Then it's FaceTime with employees who are not located locally to talk about sales, development and marketing.

At work, I take notes on the native iPad notebook. The iPad is always with me, and I use HighRise for CRM and project management — it's a great way to find out what's happening with the company. Because we sell an iPad-based solution, I use my iPad to show customers how to solve a technical issue.

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